Upcoming four person faculty exhibit.
Artist Statement
My painting has always been concerned with the possibilities particular to painting. Issues of plastic form, flat shape, pictorial vs. illusionistic space, and the actual space of the object itself. Lately through my use of color and paint application I’ve attempted to infuse my paintings with a sense of lightness, or weightlessness, while also working toward a spontaneity in overall effect. I see this spontaneity and weightlessness as the antithesis of most formal abstraction (or painting in general) where denial of hand, increasingly elaborate supports, and an airless seriousness seem to be the defining norm. Making something that looks like it was made by a machine has never been interesting to me. The quest for industrial perfection in fabrication, and the fetishizing of technology for its own sake, smells like the same old modernist utopianism. Art should never be about refining the product to a salable easily defined model, similar to the last, but not all that different from the first. My method relies on the spaces between resolution and surprise; the unexpected connection, and the freedom to contradict myself.
RESUME
John M. Zarcone
EDUCATION
Art Center College of Design, M.F.A, 1990
Major: Fine Art with an emphasis on painting.
California State University, Northridge. BA 1985
Major: Art 2D.
EXHIBITIONS
Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy one person show, September 2nd-November 30th, 2008. 1201 West Lake Mead Boulevard Las Vegas, Nevada.
I-5 Gallery Biannual juried exhibition, Mat Gleason juror, February 9th-March 15th 2008. Los Angeles California.
Powell Library, UCLA 1st Annual AHUSA, May11-25, 2007, Los Angeles, California.
I-5 Gallery Group show of Brewery artists, April 6 – 28, 2007, Los Angeles, California.
Haus Guests Benefit group show to benefit Darfur, February 24-March 24, 2007. The Brewery Project, Los Angeles California.
Glendale Community College Gallery Two person show with Mark Wessel, July 23-August 26, 2005 Glendale California.
I-5 Gallery Group show of Brewery artists, October 16 – 24, 2004, Los Angeles, California.
Square Blue Gallery Benefit show and auction, September 30, 2004, Costa Mesa, California.
Santa Monica College Gallery Faculty Show September 10-October 1, 2004, Santa Monica, California.
The Brewery Art-walk April 2004, Los Angeles California.
Gallery 825, “Open” Group show juried by Christopher Miles, December 8 –January 18, 2002, Los Angeles California.
Glendale Community College Gallery Faculty Show, September 12-October 18, 2002, Glendale, California.
Valley Vineyard, “Morphe” one man exhibition of recent paintings, March 22 –March 31, 2001, Reseda California.
Holland Tunnel Gallery and The Arboretum of Los Angeles County; Group Show “Cross-pollination” Curated by Susan Joyce and Mery Lynn McCorkle, March 11 -April 2,2001, Brooklyn, New York, and November 4-December 2,2001, Los Angeles California
Century Gallery, Group Show “Recent Gestural Painting” February 1999, Sylmar, California
Post, Group Show, “100 Dollar Show” summer 1998, Los Angeles, California
Post, Group Show, “100 Dollar Show” summer 1997, Los Angeles, California.
Spring Street Gallery, “DADA Downtown Art Tour” October 1996, Los Angeles, California.
Acme, Group Show, “Rove” February 1995, Santa Monica, California.
Woodbury University, Group Show of sight specific installations, Curators: Sally EIesby and
Carolee Toon, “A Constructed View” November 1994, Burbank, California.
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, March 1990, Pasadena, California.
REVIEWS
Los Angeles Times; Reviewed, David Pagel. February 23,1995.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Santa Monica College 1900 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405
Fall 2004; Beginning Design, Drawing I, painting I.
Los Angeles Mission College. Multi-Media Program 13356 Eldridge Avenue, Sylmar, CA 91342
January 1998 to Present; Drawing I -Beginning Drawing; Drawing I -Life Drawing, Drawing II -Life Drawing (Figure); Drawing II -Advanced Drawing (Head, Hands and Feet) Art History 10, Art Appreciation.
Glendale Community College 1500 N. Verdugo Rd. Glendale, CA 91208
Summer 2001 to Present; Beginning Figure Drawing; Advanced Figure Drawing; Painting; Beginning Design; Gallery Practices
Spring 2003 to Fall 2004; Full-time Faculty (temporary)
Los Angeles Valley College 5800 Fulton Ave. Valley Glen, CA 91401
Summer 2004; Beginning Design
UCLA Extension Interior Design Program 10995 Le Conte Ave. # 629 Los Angeles, CA 90024
Fall 2002 to Spring 2004; Elements of Design I
Otis College of Art and Design. 9045 Lincoln Boulevard Los Angeles, CA, 90045
(Evening College and Summer of Art)
Summer 1999 to Spring 2002; Figurative Painting in Oils, Drawing and Composition, Life Drawing, Figurative Painting in Oils, Life Drawing; Foundation Life Drawing, Abstract Painting, Painting Techniques of the Old Masters
Woodbury University. 7500 Glenoaks Blvd. Burbank, CA 91510-7846
Fall 2000 to Spring 2002; Beginning Drawing; Beginning Figure Drawing;
Beginning Design
Antelope Valley College. 3041 West Avenue K, Lancaster, California 93536
January 1999 to December 2002; Beginning Painting; Advanced Painting; Beginning Drawing; Advanced Drawing
